Central Campus Router Upgrade

Date: Tuesday November 23rd, 2010

Duration: 2:00 AM to 6:30 AM

Services affected: A large array of services emanating from the 111 Cummington Mall computer center and associated addresses will be offline or degraded. The addresses and complete list of affected services are noted below.

Description of impact: Service will be unavailable for the duration of the change

Reason or benefit: This work will replace end-of-life components and is part of IS&T’s general core refresh project.

Affected addresses:

700 Commonwealth Avenue
730 Commonwealth Avenue (CS)
1010 Commonwealth Avenue (Slone)
3 Cummington Mall (SCV)
64 Cummington Mall (PSY)
96/100 Cummington Mall
111 Cummington Mall
115 Cummington Mall
619 Memorial Drive

Complete list of services affected:

• • Wired network access within affected locations
  • Wireless network access within affected locations
  • VPN
  • Network registration backend and administrative tools
  • NSG Paging service
  • Modem pool access
  • IP Routing tool
  • Private HVAC network
  • SCV BG cluster
  • SCV Linux clusters
  • SCV pSeries
  • SCV Katana cluster
  • SCV Cootie cluster
  • SCV Atlas cluster
  • Apreso (predecessor to ECHO360)
  • WEBCT
  • Myprint
  • ACS Mail
  • Cyrus Mail
  • ACS Login
  • ACS email (including forwarding and vacation)
  • Horde
  • ACS-SMTP broadcast email
  • External bulk mailings
  • Outgoing Exchange Email relaying
  • Emergency alert mailings
  • People.bu.edu
  • Linux installation and bug reporting
  • ADR domain
  • All of VDI
    • Mugar
    • Sargent
    • ITHC
    • BUMC Library
    • IS&T VDI Pilot
    • IS&T training rooms
  • BU <-> BMC GAL+ Freebusy synch
  • DOS Rosetta
  • Rental Property Skyline
  • Quest APP portal
  • OnBase Terminal Server (APP portal will be down)
  • SAP GUI
  • IS&T Informatica
  • IS&T Office Communications server
  • IS&T Simple Help
  • Active Directory Forrest syslog server
  • VMware vCenter
  • Microsoft SQL server
  • AFS backups
  • LDAP server used by Shibboleth
  • Django administrative applications
  • BULogin account management
  • Majordomo mailing list forwarding
  • FTP service
  • License service
  • Webdev.bu.edu
  • Content updates unavailable for:

• • • Portal Service (my.bu.edu)
    • www.bu.edu
    • Alum.bu.edu

Reduced Capacity/Degraded

• • AD Domain
  • AD2 Domain
  • Microsoft KMS licensing service
  • Exchange 2007 (OIT cluster and public folder service)
  • AFS File Services
  • Virtual hosting service
  • PHP4 backend service
  • PHP5 backend service
  • BUToday dbin service
  • Ezproxy
  • Dcommon public access